Heavy Strategy

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HS 009 The Metrics of IT Security Jul 28, 2021

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How do you measure IT Security ? Specifically, how do you decide to allocate budget and justify the underlying reasoning. Most companies allocate a percentage of IT Budget, but Johna argues differently.

HS 008: Five Core Issues for IT Architects in 2021 Jul 15, 2021

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What five issues would be top of mind for IT architects ? Security, Backup.Recovery, Cloud, Skills Development and Distributed/Hybrid Work. Listen in on why and how these issues are our choices. If you have feedback or want us to followup then head over to our Follow Up page and send us your anonymous (or not) feedback.

HS007: Distributed Work and Return To Office Strategies May 24, 2021

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Returning to the office is a key issue as companies learn that being "in person" is the new remote working

Heavy Strategy 006 – Renting your Hyperconverged Stack, Wrong or Right Nov 30, 2020

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Some call it subscription but we call it renting your hyper-converged solution. Whats the business and technology strategy of consumption based HCI ?

Heavy Strategy 005 – Infection Handling Open Source In Enterprise IT Nov 17, 2020

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The question: Is open source is viable for Enterprise IT ? The discussion resulted in describing the mechanics of onboarding new products as infection repsonse. Did the metaphor work ?

Heavy Strategy 004 – Is Kubernetes A Thing Nov 10, 2020

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Kubernetes is operational not transformational.

Heavy Strategy 003 – The Impact of DPUs, SmartNICs on IT Infrastructure Decision Making Nov 03, 2020

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Are DPU's something that you want ? What use cases can be addressed ? What makes them more than a SmartNIC ? How do you consume DPU's in your infrastructure ?

Heavy Strategy 002 – Is Microsoft VMware’s Biggest Threat ? Oct 29, 2020

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A topic that’s been popular from my blog is Microsoft is VMware’s biggest threat. The core of the conversation around it seems be about the stack. Does it make sense to outsource private and public cloud engineering to a provider such as Microsoft. An adjacent conversation is does VMware matter when you zoom out of... Read more »

HS001 – Detecting Hype in 5G Marketing Oct 20, 2020

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Greg brings the topic of Hype in 5G Marketing and attempts to explain why some hype is legit but humans should care less. Keith puts the brakes on and provides context, breakdown and reality.

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